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...Kennedy School received initial funding for the center from Leslie Wexler, founder and chair of The Limited, and his wife Abigail. Officials at the Kennedy School would not disclose the amount of the Wexlers' gift, which will support the center for its first three years...
There were pure meta-television moments. Early on, Clinton spear carrier, Representative Robert Wexler, said he had a rebuttal to impeachment gonzo Representative Bob Barr--but was saving it for an appearance that evening on Crossfire. Blurting it out at the hearing, he said, "wouldn't be fair to the program." The Minority Counsel prepared an America's Funniest Home Videos clip consisting of Ken Starr saying over and over that he couldn't recall, remember or recollect...
...stop it. It is as though an old, rusty train has ground into motion and is pulling out of the shed where it has been stored since 1974. Newt Gingrich and Henry Hyde are there, one the conductor, the other the engineer. Barney Frank and Robert Wexler are inside one of the cars, waving at us through the cloudy windows. And we, the people, are standing in the weeds by the track, watching as the train chugs along across the land, toward an unknown destiny. We didn't decide to put the train in motion...
...goal is that she won't be able to raise her eyebrows," explains Dr. Patricia Wexler, who wears cat glasses, sports a '60s-style bubble haircut and has a teasing, just-between-girlfriends way with patients that makes her office seem more like Oprah than a dermatology clinic. The injections she administers--"Don't worry! It's only a baby needle!"--leave a series of bloody little welts across Maggie's forehead. Though they look like nasty mosquito bites, they will disappear within minutes as the toxin is absorbed into the muscles; within four or five days, Maggie's forehead...
...person, Franklin is sly and funny, but has melancholy, magic-drained eyes. The twice-divorced diva's life has sometimes had the hard, sad stomp of a blues song: in 1979 her father was shot by burglars, fell into a coma and died. Producer Jerry Wexler once wrote, "I think of Aretha as Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows...anguish surrounds Aretha as surely as the glory of her musical aura...